Bandage



R. CASKEY, JR

Dec. 8, 1953 BANDAGE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed March 3, 1952 Readey Caskey Jr.

INVENTOR.

BY ad 13 Wav FM L R. CASKEY, JR

Dec. 8, 1953 BANDAGE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 3, 1952 Reqdey Caskey J1:

INVENTOR.

Patented Dec. 8, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BANDAGE 'Readey Caskey, Jr., Brownwood, Tex. Application March 3, 1952, Serial No. 274,585 Claims. (01. 12s 1e5) This invention relates to new and; useful improvements and structural refinements in bandages, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, efiicient and a highly comfortable bandage which excludes outside atmosphere from the area of the wound and thus enables medicine or chemicals to be applied to the Wound and generate local heat to assist their thereapeutic effects.

Primarily, the invention contemplates the provision of a bandage which is adapted for positioning on a leg, and an important feature of the invention resides in the provision of means for effectively sustaining the bandage in position.

With the above more important objects and features in view and such other objects and features as may become apparent as this specification proceeds, the invention consists essentially in the construction and arrangement of parts as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bandage in its open position;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of a patients leg with a knee injury;

Figure 3 is a side elevational view illustrating medicated cloths applied to the injured area;

Figure 4 is a side elevational view showing the bandage applied to the leg, with the outer jacket thereof open;

Figure 5 is a side elevational view, similar to that shown in Figure 4, but illustrating the outer jacket closed; and

Figure 6 is a side elevational view, illustrating the opposite side of the bandage as it appears in Figure 5.

Like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts in the specification and throughout the several views. Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the invention consists of a bandage which is designated generally by the reference character [0 and embodies in its construction a split tubular inner casing I2 which is preferably formed from elastic material and is provided at the split edge portions or opposite ends thereof with sets of snap fastener elements M, Ma and I6, the elements l6 being engageable selectively with the elements I4 or Ma, whereby the casing is made adjustable to suit the leg.

A tubular outer jacket I8 of fabric material, or the like, is longitudinally split from end to end, is adapted to completely enclose the casing l2 and is provided at the split edges thereof with coacting slide fastener members 20, 28, while the end portions of the jacket are shirred and eduipped with suitable elastic bands 22 for con- I tracting the same around the leg. j

The casing i2 is also provided with snap fastener elements 24 which are engageable with coacting elements 26 on the jacket l8, whereby the casing and the jacket are separably connected together.

Finally, it is to be noted that a strap :28 is secured at one end thereof to one end portion of the casing 92, as indicated at 30 in Figure ,1, the purpose of this strap being hereinafter more fully described.

When the bandage is to be placed in use such as, for example, on an injured knee, as indicated at 30 in Figure 2, absorbent material 32, im-

pregnated with chemicals, medicines or other therapeutic agents, is applied to the injured area as shown in Figure 3.

Thereupon, with the jacket I8 open as shown in Figure 4, the inner casing I2 is applied to the leg so that it completely encloses the absorbent material 32 and after the snap fastener elements l4, H5 or Me, Hi are fastened, the strap 28 is extended upwardly and tied around the waist as shown at'34, so as to effectively sustain the entire bandage in position.

The outer jacket I8 is then closed, as shown in Figure 5, while the shirred, resilient end portions 22 of the jacket engage the leg.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that the outer jacket will effectively exclude atmosphere from the area of the wound'and the chemicals, medicine, etc. in the material 32 will be permitted to generate heat in the locality of the injured area, so as to assist in the therapeutic process.

It is believed that the advantages and use of the invention will be clearly understood from the foregoing disclosure, and accordingly further description thereof at this point is deemed unnecessary.

Having described the claimed as new is:

1. A bandage comprising a split tubular inner casing, means separably connecting the split edges of said casing together, a tubular outer jacket enclosing said casing, said jacket being longitudinally split from end to end, means separably connecting the split edges of said jacket together, and means associated with said casing and said jacket for separably fastening said casing to said jacket.

2. The bandage as defined in claim 1 wherein said jacket has shirred end portions provided with resilient means for contracting the same.

3, The bandage as defined in claim 1 together invention, what is mama;

with a strap secured at one end thereof to said casing and projecting outwardly from said jackat for attachment to a portion of a wearers body. 4 4. A bandage comprising a split tubular inner casing adapted to be positioned on a wearers leg, separable fasteners connecting together the split edges of said casing, a split tubular outer jacket completely enclosing said casing and having shirred 'oontractible end portions, resilient means on said shirred portions for contracting the same, separable fastener means connecti'ng together the split edges of said jacket, and a strap secured at one end thereof to said easing and extending outwardly and upwardly from one end of said jacket, the other end portion of said strap constituting a band adapted to be secured around a wearer's waist.

5. A bandage comprising a strip of material adapted to be wound around a member of-the user and separably connected along its opposite 4 ends to present an inner casing, a tubular outer jacket enclosing said casing, said jacket being longitudinally split from end to end, means separably connecting the split edges of said jacket together, and means associated with said casing and said jacket for separably fastening said inner casing to the jacket.

READEY CASKEY, JR.

References Cited in tne file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Hutchison May 13, 1941 OTHER REFERENCES Journal of the American Medical Association, November 22, 1941, vol. 117, No. 21, page 36. Note particularly the cut entitled Derma- Tectqrs, item S. 4002. A copy of this publication is available at the Scientific Library of the Patent Office.

Number 

